Lied to get a jab now friend is angry

[Cantkeepaname]

I don’t understand why my friend is annoyed at me as it doesn’t effect anyone else.. part of me thinks it’s jealousy but she’s not speaking to me because I told her how I managed to lose 1.5stone.
backstory- I lied to get an online prescription by saying I was about 1.5stone heavier than I was then when I needed to send photos I just made my scales say more to match the weight I submitted. Not exactly a difficult lie but it worked and I’ve had 2pens of mounjaro 2.5 and I’m now 8.5stone. I feel great, the size I want to be and no side effects so yes I feel smug that my lie worked and I lost the weight easy.
well my friend who has been trying to lose weight too but not via jabs is furious saying I should be ashamed of myself.
surely it doesn’t effect anyone else? I paid full price so can’t be blamed for stealing from the nhs

If there was ever someone who deserved to gain the weight back and then some…

Cheats like you make it harder for people who actually need this medication to access it.

I mean morally what you have done isn't great, lying etc

But what is the OP lying about? Why does her friend need to know everything about her life. Are they losing weight together and the OP is pretending she’s doing it by diet and exercise? If so then yes she’s lying. If not then what is she lying about?

This is utter bollocks, and plain nasty to boot. OP bought Mounjaro online from private sources which have absolutely no impact on NHS provision because the supply line is totally different. OP isn’t ‘cheating’. She's done what she thought was necessary to lose the weight, and she doesn’t need to explain it to anyone. She didn’t lie to her friend, she just didn’t tell her - and she’s not obliged to, it’s none of her business.

Nothing much changes - I remember Fern Britton getting pilloried, some years ago, because she’d lost a lot of weight, and then people found out she’d had bariatric surgery to lose the weight.

What difference does it make? She paid privately, so her business. Same with the OP. 🤷‍♀️

Exactly this. The friend found the Mounjaro in OP’s fridge and kicked off as though she had some automatic right to know about it. It’s not even lying by omission - it’s no-one elses’ business. If the friend is unsuccessfully trying to lose weight l suspect sour grapes.

No, the GLP1s repurposed for WLI were approved for use with a different population, type 2 diabetics, and have been in use for around 19 years. GLP1s for obesity have only been approved since 2022.

It's a different population, and a different risk profile, and a different dose. And OP is by her own word not obese, and had to lie to get her shots.

yanbu. I’ve two friends who did the same and I am not angry at them. That’s such a weird reaction! Jealousy I imagine.

Are you the ‘friend’?

You don’t think all the global health authorities know that. You don’t think much of the data for one thing can be used for another.

oh my sweet summer child.

Well done for losing weight @Cantkeepaname If you passed the assessment by doing what you said, that's not a big issue is it? They were private prescriptions so no impact on the NHS. I think YANBU. I applaud you in taking action.

Your DF is jealous. She might not be able to afford the injections or she might not want to use your approach to getting them prescribed. Both issues are hers not yours. There are alternatives she could try that increase GLP1. Help her find out how to do it - use Google copilot or chat gpt.

Agree with the other poster, this is what secrets are for. Well done, nothing do to with anyone else and this is the reason I told very few people I used them. People will have their opinions on them, which is fine, but I didn’t want to hear them and I didn’t want or need to provide mine, plus there’s a ‘it’s okay for you cause you can afford it crew’ so just not worth it.

she went in your fridge so should be a little bit more gracious when challenging you , but ultimately your choice, your money and your body x

It’s no one’s business but her own. I’d keep it secret if I used them too as there is so much judgement. Maybe the friend can’t afford them and is jealous?

I think that's the point, the OP didn't need to mention WLI to her friend, so why did she?

all it did was run the friend's nose in it about how they lost 1.5 st and how they got the WLI, when they could have saved the friendship and all that bad feeling by not boasting and causing needless bad feeling. There is far too much oversharing nowadays, people don't know when to keep their mouth shut.

the OP could have just enjoyed the feeling of not being overweight, instead of giving a blow by blow account about how she lied to get the jabs.

Hear hear. End of thread.

People will have their opinions on them, which is fine, but I didn’t want to hear them and I didn’t want or need to provide mine, plus there’s a ‘it’s okay for you cause you can afford it crew’ so just not worth it.

is there nothing that people do or lengths they won't go to nowadays to invent new ways of hating each other. If it isnt politics, or the Royal Family it's WLI. Unbelievable!

Her friend found them.

This is where BMI doesn’t always make sense though. I know someone my height weighing two stone more than me and yet taking a smaller dress size. She has a lot of muscle and I have none at all.

OP explained the lie in her first post.

IF you weren’t smug then it’s just jealousy. People (especially women) don’t like it when you’ve taken the “easier” way out. It doesn’t affect them but they internalise it… anything to do with beauty and weight loss - keep it to your self

I don’t think you are much of a friend in the first place TBH. Do you not have the courage to be open and honest with people?

Ok. But that doesn't detract from the fact it is pretty stupid to lie about your condition in a medical situation. It's also unethical in OP's case.

Why is it an automatic congratulations about losing weight?. The OP went from a healthy 10 stone to 8.5. Depending on height that could be the lower end of healthy or put her into underweight.

She lied about her weight to get the scales to show her as heavier than she was, not by a small amount but by holding her dog.

This does not seem like a healthy attitude to her health and weight. Maybe the friend was concerned about that and reacted crossly.

@TigTails peeeyouuu we can smell the jealousy from the screen. Heal babe

I think it’s always a good thing to actually read the op before posting, otherwise you post silly stuff like this. Her friend found them in the fridge, and rhe op hasn’t behaved smug to her friend, nor were they losing weight together.

It’s not a lie. She simply hasn’t chosen to give this friend detail, I’m fairly sure there are other elements she doesn’t share with her friend, from how often she shits to how often she masturbates. This doesn’t make her a liar.